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December 27, 2009)
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| China's first
government-backed gay bar has opened after a three-week delay sparked by
intense media attention, a charity said Sunday, in a nation where
homosexuality is still a sensitive subject.
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| Acehnese women carry a man on a stretcher as they run towards a hill during tsunami drill at Lhoong district in Aceh Besar, in Indonesia's Aceh province December 26, 2009. In Indonesia's Banda Aceh, survivors gathered in neighbourhood mosques or homes to remember those killed by the wall of water as high as 30 metres triggered by an undersea earthquake off the island of Sumatra five years ago. REUTERS/Stringer |